Landscapes of Memory

An American filmmaker travels to Berlin to confront her family's Holocaust history, only to be detained at a pro-Palestinian demonstration and charged with antisemitism.

What began as a third-generation return to her family's past quickly becomes a reckoning with the present. Weaving personal essay and intimate character studies, the film follows a Holocaust survivor's descendant, a Nazi descendant historian, and a Palestinian artist, each grappling with how collective memory is forgotten and instrumentalised. Threading through their stories are voice notes between the filmmaker and her father back home, whose motor neurone disease is deteriorating his ability to speak and share their family history. As the political stakes intensify after October 7th, Landscapes of Memory asks what it means to learn from the past to shape the present. Spoken across English, German and Arabic.

Content guidance: contains hateful language.